Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

Hélène Cixous : Well-Kept Ruins

11.01.2022 - By David Naimon, Tin House BooksPlay

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Today’s guest is poet, novelist, playwright, feminist theorist, literary critic, and philosopher Hélène Cixous. Perhaps best known for her iconic 1976 essay “The Laugh of the Medusa,” Cixous thought for much of her writing life that she would never write about her birthplace and childhood in Algeria, that she would never write about her mother, […]

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